COURSES

Goals

In the last years the importance of information and communication systems has greatly increased. The increased utilization and reliance upon information systems in economy, various sectors, from private to government, and everyday life, has led to inextricable linking of the systems that are today considered as a most important information infrastructure. The primary goal of this course is to provide the students theoretical and practical knowledge with the area of Internet, TCP/IP protocol stack and related communication technologies. General Competences: - An ability to analyse, synthesise and anticipate solutions and consequences - An ability to apply the theory in to a practice - An autonomy in the professional work - Communicational-skills development; particularly in international environment - Ethical reflection and obligation to a professional ethics - Cooperativity, team work (in international environment) Subject specific competences: - Understand and evaluate the functioning of the Internet networks - Understand the functioning of the world mesh networks connected with TCP/IP protocols - Select and use approaches and methodologies for addressing the needs in interconnecting networks and related l information infrastructure - Continue research and development work in the area of digital networks

Curriculum

Part I: - Basic terms and notions - Transmission techniques and communication infrastructure interworking - Network elements, devices and systems - Structure and properties of communication protocols: connection-oriented and connectionless protocols, connection between protocols and services - Reference models and architectures: comparison ISO/OSI and TCP/IP - Networks and technologies: mobile, wireless, 3G networks - Backbone and access networks Part II: - TCP/IP protocol stack - Ethernet and other link layer protocols - IP layer protocols - TCP layer protocols - IPv6 - Internetworking with TCP/IP - Architecture, addressing, DNS, naming and mapping - Routing protocols, autonomous systems Part III: - Application layer protocols and services: DNS, FTP, WWW, SMTP, VoI, P2P communication (P2PTV) - Sensor networks - Internet of Things Part IV: - Internet governance, administration and management of the Internet (ICANN, ISOC, IETF) and other institutions (WSIS, OECD,ITU) Internet intellectual property, service internationalisation and other Internet associations (W3C). - Social networks, new content provision, user centric Internet